Wilkes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““In the instant case the evidence sustains a finding by the trial judge that the state made a prima facie case reflecting adequate proof from which the jury could find a continuing intent on the part of this defendant to forcibly remove these two girls to an isolated locale and to hold them there against their will. Defendant contends that the verbiage ‘secretly confined’ as set out in the statute must be construed to mean that no one else knows where the person abducted is to be carried, and since one of these boys knew where these girls had been taken, such fact dissipates the accusation. We conclude that such a construction would be contrary to the intent of the cited statute. It may well be that the boy knew that these two girls were located in a deserted fishing camp and were being held against their will in some isolated area, but such knowledge does not conform with the conclusion that they were not secretly confined. To hold that the releasing of the boy by those who had abducted him in the middle of the night and who were still restraining two young girls in a dark deserted cabin located in an area of which neither the boy nor the girls had any knowledge precludes a finding that the girls were ‘secretly confined,’ would be placing a strained construction upon the obvious prohibition intended by the legislature.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 233 So. 2d 448 - Miller v. State